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GLEN COVE GUIDE
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Glen Cove Hospital visitation reopens with new guidelines Glen Cove Hospital has resumed visitation hours with guidelines to keep employees, patients and visitors safe. • Visitation is from 2 to 6 p.m. • Visitors will be asked about out of state travel. • Only one visitor at a time will be permitted at a patient’s bedside. • Total time for all visitors cannot exceed the four-hour maximum. • Visitors must undergo symptom and temperature checks upon entering the facility. • A hospital-issued mask must be worn by the visitor at all times. • Visitors must wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for isolation rooms as recommended by the Department and Centers for Disease Control. • Visitors are required to sign in at the front desk and check in at the nursing station on the unit. Badges must be returned to front desk upon departure. No exceptions. • No one under 18 years of age will be permitted to visit. • Visitors must wash their hands or use hand sanitizer upon arrival to the patient’s room and upon departure. • Visitors must avoid physical contact, such as hugging, with the patient. • Visitors are not to be permitted to wear personal gloves upon entry into the facility.
• Visitors will not be permitted access to hospital pantries. Instead, they should ask staff for assistance. • No visitors will be permitted in the Emergency Department or Peri-Op Area. • Visitors will not be permitted to visit with patients who are Covid-19 positive. • Visitors must remain in the patient’s room throughout the visit, except when directed by hospital staff to leave for procedures.
Five steps for effective hand washing • Wet one’s hands with clean, running water and use soap. • Lather hands and rub together with soap. Lather the backs of hands, between the fingers and under nails. • Scrub hands for at least 20 seconds, the time it takes to hum the “Happy Birthday” song from beginning to end twice. • Rinse your hands well under clean, running water. • Dry hands using a clean paper towel.
Isolation precautions Anyone who visits a patient with an isolation sign on the door should stop at the nursing station before entering the patient’s room. Isolation precautions create barriers that help prevent the spread of germs in the hospital and are needed to protect the visitor and the patient they are visiting. The precautions are also needed to protect other How to use patients in the hospital. When a patient is in isolation, hand sanitizer visitors may need to wear PPE • Apply the product to the (gloves, gown, mask). They cannot touch the patient and may palm of one hand. not be allowed into a patient’s • Rub hands together. room at all. Visitors who are ill • Rub the product over all will not be permitted to enter the the surfaces of hands and hospital. fingers until hands are dry Glen Cove Hospital encourages visitors to remain for 20 seconds. closely connected to their loved ones through virtual visual means Courtesy Denyse LaVeglia such as Skype or FaceTime. Above photo: Nurses Denyse LaVeglia and Nikolette Bros worked long hours during the pandemic.
